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December 24, 2019
WISHING YOU LIGHT AND LOVE
[image error]Wishing you all a lovely season of beauty, love, and peace. I am grateful to all as we head into the second decade of the millennium.
Love, P.C.
Christmas reads from P.C. Zick
[image error] Minty’s Kiss (A Smoky Mountain Romance – Sweet)
[image error] A Merry Mountain Christmas (A Smoky Mountain Romance – Sweet)
[image error] Love on Holiday (Rivals in Love series – Sweet)
November 19, 2019
AND ANOTHER ONE. . .
How many times in the past two months have I said, I just can’t do it? Plenty–but those moments of doubt lasted brief seconds, and I’d go right back at it.
[image error]And today the sixth book in the Rivals in Love sweet contemporary romance series, Love on Stage, releases. To me, the novel’s publication translates into four books written in 2019. I have ten days left to finish the seventh book, which will bring the total to five.
“Whew,” she said as she wiped her brow. Oops, I’m writing my first person account in fictional narrative form.
There won’t be any other completed books in 2019. I’m taking the month of December to relax and think about my next big project. I never say never, but I don’t plan on writing that many books in 2020. The next book, tentatively titled Four Women and a Man, is a forty-year saga with four main characters who have known each other since college, and the novel will be a careful examination of their intersecting lives. It all begins with the death of one of those main characters. I wrote a rough outline (despite being a pantster in general) in 2018, but then life and work interrupted any further creation.
[image error]But enough of that. I have to get back to Love on Holiday, Book Seven. Finally, the parents of the Crandall clan tell their story as their fortieth wedding anniversary approaches.
Love on Stage
[image error]An actress intent on finding her place in the theater after leaving Hollywood. A fire fighter reeling from a bitter divorce. When she inherits money to open her own playhouse, the inspection ignites love at first sight.
Available on Kindle and in paperback.
“There’s really only one way a book family becomes so real, and that’s through good writing. And that’s what PC Zick offers. Her characters don’t just plop onto the page; they continue to develop through the series, and this, the sixth in the series, doesn’t disappoint.” ~Anne Donaldson, Amazon Review
November 12, 2019
A LITTLE HOLIDAY CHEER FOR YOU
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A Merry Mountain Christmas
Blush level: So very sweet it will bring cavities!
“Now, this is what an adult Christmas story should be. It showed all the challenges that one has to face when you have become widowed such as how to take back your life, how to deal with your adult child, how to deal with loneliness and what to do when an old love re-enters your life. These are all questions that were beautifully answered in this story. I loved the pups and her outreach to the community.” ~Crystal Crossings, Amazon VINE VOICE
A Merry Mountain Christmas stars none other than Fran, the woman who has been a mother to all of the characters in the previous books. In this Christmas novella, it’s Fran’s turn to find love. She reunites with her first love and finds a passion for rescuing cats and dogs. This inspiring story shows its never too late to find love.
November 10, 2019
Sally’s Cafe and Bookstore – Sunday Interview and New Book on the Shelves – Love on Course by P.C. Zick
Sunday Interview over at Sally’s Cafe and Bookstore. Much thanks to Sally Cronin!
My guest this week is multi-genre bestselling author P.C. Zick who shares the inspiration behind her popular Crandall Family Series and what we can look forward to later this year.
About P.C. Zick
Bestselling author P.C. Zick describes herself as a storyteller no matter what she writes. And she writes in a variety of genres, including romance, contemporary fiction, and creative nonfiction. She’s won various awards for her essays, columns, editorials, articles, and fiction.
The three novels in her Florida Fiction Series contain stories of Florida and its people and environment, which she credits as giving her a rich base for her storytelling. She says her, “Florida’s quirky and abundant wildlife–both human and animal–supply my fiction with tales almost too weird to be believable.”
P.C. writes both sweet and steamy romances. The sweet contemporary romances in her Smoky Mountain Romances, are set in southwest North Carolina. Another sweet romance series…
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October 22, 2019
AND IT’S ANOTHER NEW RELEASE!
[image error]And now for Book Five in the Rivals in Love series. Love on Course features the baby of the Crandall clan as he explores his Italian and Irish culinary heritages while his girlfriend leaves Chicago for a new job in Florida. The sweet contemporary romance offers up some tasty treats and follows the adventures of Turq and Cindy as they struggle to give love a second chance.
“As always, the family is intimately involved in this relationship, and, as always, that is one of the book’s strengths. There are developments in the other existing relationships, and in Turq’s parents’ lives, and I refuse to add a spoiler for these. Just know that I need to read the next Crandall book really really urgently!” ~Goodreads Review
Click here to download your copy today.
If you haven’t read any of the books in this series, enjoy the first two books at special pricing to celebrate the new release. Enjoy!
Love on Trial, Book One – FREE October 22-24. Click here to download.
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Love on Board, Book Two – Only 99 cents until October 31. Click here to download.
Stay tuned. The next release, Love on Stage, goes live on November 19.
October 16, 2019
OCTOBER TREATS BUT NO TRICKS!
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October 7, 2019
UNSHELTERED BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER – A REVIEW
[image error]Barbara Kingsolver stands at the head of my hero list. Her writing from Flight Behavior to the Poisonwood Bible inspired me to write about families, nature, and love. I eagerly anticipated her new novel Unsheltered.
I hate to say it, but I must. The book disappointed me. The author took a risk by creating some unlikable characters from the invalid and grumpy father-in-law, selfish grown children, and a protagonist who appears weak and cowardly. Her husband comes in highest on the likability scale, but he also has serious flaws.
The story addresses the economy after the fall in 2007 and the hardships that befall a professor and his writer wife. I found it hard to believe that this couple found themselves in such dire straits. When their son leaves his infant with them, I wanted to scream because no one ever confronted the young man about his responsibility or lack of it. But they all sit in their intellectual superiority at the dinner table and argue political history, economics, and current affairs.
There were times when I felt that Ms. Kingsolver simply wanted to dump all her knowledge about geography and economics on the reader. A beginning writer makes this mistake, but an accomplished author should know better. I felt that parts of the novel were simply places for info dumps.
I had another major issue with this book. I’m in simpatico with the author’s politics, but I don’t read her novels to learn about her leanings. I can turn on the news for that. I want to be entertained and carried away by the story, not dumped right down in the middle of what I already know is happening on a daily basis in this country. It surprised me to settle down into the story to only be knocked on the head with her views on the president and his party. I can read all about that in the plethora of nonfiction books glutting the market today.
Kingsolver had something to say. She said it. I only hope the next time she wants to pontificate on the reality of our world today, she’ll do it in her nonfiction and get back to the storytelling she does so very well. But perhaps she’s distracted. I heard she’s writing the script for The Poisonwood Bible for HBO, which is being produced by Amy Adams. Now that should be entertaining.
October 2, 2019
Featured: Love on Air by P.C. Zick – Caleb and Linda Pirtle
Lovely surprise this morning to see this appear in my inbox. Thanks to Caleb and Linda Pirtle for all they do to support Indie Authors.
Featured: Love on Air by P.C. Zick: They forgot one important thing while becoming rising stars. They forgot all about love.
Source: Featured: Love on Air by P.C. Zick – Caleb and Linda Pirtle
October 1, 2019
LOVE ON AIR #NEWRELEASE TODAY
[image error]The next book in the Rivals in Love drops into the published category today. Love on Air, Book Four, featuring the media and news, wrote itself in many ways. At points, it became surreal when I would write a scene then it would play out in reality in the daily onslaught of news.
Diamond Crandall, another one of the six siblings in this Chicago family, anchors a cable news show each night. His producer, more concerned with ratings than ethics, brings in a new reporter from Chattanooga. Hope Colson, a young co-host on a morning news show, is eager to move up and accepts the job offer to work on The Diamond Report with Diamond Crandall. However, Diamond is dismayed to discover his producer hired Hope because she’s a woman, and she’s an African American. Hope hails from Baltimore where her family suffered an unthinkable tragedy five years earlier. She keeps this from her new co-worker even when she panics when her first assignment brings her to the front lines of a mass shooting at Navy Pier.
I wrote Hope’s story days before all the political nonsense and chatter began about Baltimore. So, it was strange to have chosen that city when all manner of nasty things were being banded about violence there. I’ve visited Baltimore several times and know people who live there so I’ve been interested in the city with so much potential fight its way back from its bad reputation. Then I wrote a scene about the mass shooting and two weeks later the weekend of horror from El Paso to Dayton occurred. Maybe it’s not so unusual because both Baltimore and mass shootings are often in the news.
As an author, I can choose to turn those negative stories and tragedies into positive life forces, which is what I did in Love on Air. There can be hope after the worst things happen. It’s hard for me to forget what’s happening in the world outside of my office, but I can create stories that try to offer a solution and a way out of the darkness.
And one final word, on Love on Air. Journalistic ethics does not have to be an oxymoron.
Love on Air – On Kindle and in paperback. Grab your copy today.
Love on Trial is FREE – October 1 and 2
September 24, 2019
Sally’s Cafe and Bookstore – New Book on the Shelves – Love on Track (Rivals in Love Book Three) P.C. Zick — Smorgasbord Blog Magazine
Delighted to welcome bestselling author P.C. Zick to the Cafe and Bookstore and her featured book today was released on September 17th – Love on Track (Rivals in Love Book Three) About the Series Love on Track is the third novel in the Rivals in Love sweet contemporary romance series. Rivals in Love showcases the […]
